Quotes On Animals Extinction

#1. A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.

Paul Watson

#3. Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

April Gornik

#4. I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Jerzy Kosinski

#5. We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

Wayne Pacelle

#6. Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's hand, and do not do so, is as criminal as giving actual aid to the oppressor, for it answers his purpose ...

Ernestine Rose

#7. Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#8. The lie described my life better than the truth,' I added. 'Until it became a kind of truth.

Ben Lerner

#9. I was outclassed and outgunned, and I was only realizing it when it was too late to do a damn thing about it. A heart could only break so many times before the cause was lost.

R.K. Lilley

#10. When all the trees have been cut down and all the animals have been hunted to extinction, when all the waters are polluted and the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

Douglas Tallamy

#12. When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.

Bill Hader

#13. I cheated a lot, because I just couldn't sit and do homework. I usually sat next to someone extremely smart.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#14. It was one thing to pray for a Christmas miracle, to believe in one. It was something else entirely to see it happen before their eyes.

Karen Kingsbury

#15. What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#16. The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

Thomas Aquinas

#17. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.

Wayne Pacelle

#18. Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.

Laurence Overmire

#19. 200 The Industrial Revolution. Family and community are replaced by state and market. Massive extinction of plants and animals.

Yuval Noah Harari